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Efva Attling has been awarded with the Näringslivsmedaljen (Industry/business medal) by the Royal Patriotic Society (Kungliga Patriotika Sällskapet). Efva received the medal today from the Prince Carl Philip in a ceremony which took place in Riddarhuset, Stockholm (Sweden).

Efva has been awarded for her entrepreneurship and for founding her jewelry company Efva Attling Stockholm AB 12 years ago.

As you may have read, Eva Dahlgren was one of the hosts, or “master of ceremonies” as some Swedish press called it, of this year’s edition of Grammisgalan. She also joined The Ark with one of their performances, “Calleth You, Cometh I”, which can be seen on Youtube.

Unfortunately, this year the show was not broadcast on any TV (it had to be THIS year or??), so there are only pictures from the event for us to enjoy: Expressen, Aftonbladet.

Mija and Greta Folkesson are back with the band Blackbird Sthlm, a newly formed band consisting of Fredrik von Gerbe (guitars, vocals, drums), Thomas Lindberg (bass), Erik Holmberg (keyboards, guitar, vocals), Stefan Bergström (guitar and vocals) and, last but not least, Mija Folkesson (vocals) and Greta Folkesson (vocals).

“If one should describe what kind of music Blackbird Sthlm makes, one comes up with bands and artists we grew up with, specially from the time we ourselves started to play music,” writes Fredrik von Gerbe on the band’s MySpace website. “Back then, one sat down with new released favourite albums and looked at the covers with all those pictures and one started to dream and believe that everything was possible.”

Bands and artists such as Stones, Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Jimmy Hendrix, Deep Purple and many many more are the band’s inspiration.”The fact that we managed to put this gang together feels extremely great,” Fredrik comments, “so it will be very exciting to be on this new journey.”

The band will perform tomorrow on TV4 Nyhetsmorgon. You can hear 2 of their songs, “White Dove” and “This Is Who I Am” on MySpace.

As already mentioned some days ago, the first same-sex wedding in the air is going to take place today on board of a SAS flight from Stockholm to New York.

The couple, Aleks and Shantu, were chosen on the online contest SAS organised via the “Love is in the air” website. The couple got more than 80.000 votes. It was initially planned to choose one couple, but in the end, SAS, seeing the huge number of votes and participation, decided to choose a further couple: Ewa and Gosia, who will also get married on the air today.

Efva Attling designed the wedding rings for the three couples, which you can see here.

You can follow the whole event on SAS Twitter and on SAS “Love is in the air” blog.

According to magazine QX and Dagensmedia.se, Efva Attling is about to launch a huge commercial campaign in the USA on December 6.

On this date, a gay couple will marry in the SAS “Love is in the air”,when SAS will host the first world’s first same-sex wedding in the air. The wedding, for which Efva designed the rings, will take place on a flight from Stockholm to New York.

Together with this event, Efva is going to launch a campaign for one of her most well-known pieces, “Homo Sapiens”, which you might know since 99. The campaign consists of full-page ads on varous magazines such as gay magazine OUT, TV appearances on gay media channels, videos and the website homosapiens.nu, which will be launched as well on December 6h.